If you don't know the history of FP, then it's hard to see that large community is talking about your interest. @OneSadCookie
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I wish someone like
@warrenm could make a list of the concepts you MUST be familiar with to learn/understand Metal.
Bottom-up approaches don’t work for first encounters w a subj. Pick a project; run into difficulty; research what tripped you
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What is a good learning project for Metal? What is something someone can target that is doable and will teach them a lot?
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Load a model. Position it in space. Render it with flat shading. Light it. texture it. Place another object relative to it.
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This will teach you the basics: vertex data, transforms and coordinate spaces, shading, texturing/sampling. All essential.
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Thanks sweetie! Not trying to be argumentative, just trying to remove unnecessary abstractions. :)
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I don’t find you argumentative at all. This is useful. Happy to chat more via email or the backchannel.
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But like do you need to understand linear algebra to understand Metal? What about data structures or design patterns? iOS?
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I feel like I keep being told a growing and mutable set of things everyone MUST know and I want something targeted. Thanks.
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Everyone will give you different lists, bc everyone has different aims and abstracts away the details they care less about.
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